In this stellar documentary, Gianfranco Rosi contrasts the lives of the desperate thousands landing on the shores of a Sicilian island with the everyday existence of the locals. An Academy Award® nominee for Best Documentary Feature and the first nonfiction film to ever win the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, Fire at…Continue readingFire at Sea
Category: Documentary
A poetic and intimate story of loss, rebirth and transformation which documents one man’s journey into a world beyond sight. You will find a great review of the film here. You can watch the trailer here. Notes on Blindness (U)2016, UK 90 mins Friday 29th September Hallhill Doors and Bar 7.30 Film starts at 8.00Continue readingNotes on Blindness
From Chile, a story about water through which flows a stream of historical recollections, and poetic reflections rendered with breathtaking clarity. You can watch the trailer here. THE PEARL BUTTON (15) 2016, Chile, 1hr 22mins (Subtitles) Doors and Bar 7.30pm Film begins at 8.00pmContinue readingThe Pearl Button
A modern-day Grapes of Wrath, award-winning documentary The Overnighters is an intimate portrait of job-seekers desperately chasing the broken American Dream to the tiny oil boom town of Williston, North Dakota. With the town lacking the infrastructure to house the overflow of migrants, a local pastor starts the controversial “overnighters” program, allowing down-and-out workers a…Continue readingThe Overnighters
The best explanation of why I think you should come and see this film is to quote Peter Bradshaw’s review of it from the Guardian in full: ‘It isn’t simply that Patricio Guzmán’s Chilean documentary Nostalgia for the Light is moving: it has a tragic grandeur that really is very remarkable. It is deeply intelligent,…Continue readingNostalgia for the Light
Senna’s remarkable story, charting his physical and spiritual achievements on the track and off, his quest for perfection, and the mythical status he has since attained, is the subject of SENNA, a documentary feature that spans the racing legend’s years as an F1 driver, from his opening season in 1984 to his untimely death a…Continue readingSenna